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Ask HN: How many geeks has Hacker News saved?

Hacker News was launched in 2007 after I got into hacking in 2006. I wanted to join the CIA at the time, but I was getting into all kinds of potential legal trouble. When I learned about Hacker News while in Hollywood I immediately liked it because of the way the term hacker is used. I think for a while in the 2000s there were many computer programmers who considered hacking to be interesting....

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Re:Tell HN: Please stop flagging my posts on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:04AM (#32340751)
6 of my last 8 posts have been flagged. This just sucks. I need intelligent feedback for what I'm writing about and I have no solution. I'm writing about divisive topics, so I understand why I might be flagged, but can't the people doing the flagging try to be a little more careful. People can be so judgmental without even taking everything into consideration the right way. The posts I submitted to HN that I wrote were part of my purpose in life. People have asked me to handle the situation in Nebraska to the best of my ability in my spare time. And let me tell you, there is a real situation in Nebraska. I have been writing about it for a while now and I know based on feedback that I am fair and neutral according to multiple different identity groups. Its like for some reason what I share is too far into the seam of the courts for people. They see something about nazis or something like that and they just flag the post. I just gotta say, its a real bad idea to silence me on this topic. My community leaders want me to talk and write about these subjects because they know Im the best at doing it. Yet, on HN, I just get flagged over and over again even when my posts are borderline historical documents about the showdown in Nebraska and the showdown over America.

Tell HN: Please stop flagging my posts

It is difficult enough being a person who is unwillingly writing about divisive politics and contending with everything that it implies. I really wish people on HN would stop flagging my posts. I could use some comments from HN to light my way. I feel like Im getting cockblocked. I know the people who are flagging my posts have no idea at all about how hard it is to write about what they have...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019) on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:13PM (#19285307)
SEEKING WORK | USA | Remote OK

I'm a full stack engineer interested in Node.js projects

Github: https://github.com/tblobaum

Email: tblobaum [at] gmail [dot] com

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019) on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:51PM (#19283437)
Location: North America (Midwest)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: tblobaum [at] gmail dot com

Please quit judging upward. How many thousands of years have geniuses been hounded by those with smaller brains? How many great sorcerers, magicians, electricians and plumbers have been lost because of this thing where people think they have the right to speak confidently and negatively of men who are of higher caliber?

Maybe geniuses are kooky because of how outnumbered they are by irrational people? Or something else like that.

Re:Brilliant Jerks Cost More Than They Are Worth on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:41PM (#13656094)
I don't like to defend a jerk anymore than the next person but I can play the devil's advocate here.

If he's a 10x developer he's going to be a genius. A genius is a person who sees the world in shades of grays. He can't help it. If he's of that caliber then it's built into how his brain works. The comment about him being both a 10x developer and someone who sees in black and white is generally off. However, if he's looking at the work of an average person or even just an above-average person, he will ten to be able to see stronger shades of grays than other people because of his high aptitude. This is possibly why he appears to be someone who sees in black and white.

Overall the author of the article borders on anti-intellectualism... which can easily veer over to anti-semitism.... the frequent opponent of Linus Torvalds.

The artifacts left in the ground will be around longer than the one put through your laboratory. The one left in the ground will be around for thousands of years. The one brought into your lab will be around for hundreds of years or less.

What you say is only so certain. You dont seem as quick to innovate as others. Why not put a building on top of it and add to its shelter? Everyone will react poorly to eminent domain. So what? Think about the variables.

If we use imaging equipment we can somehow learn more by using more spatial reasoning. Then you can make more.
That sounds kind of ridiculous. Why dont they just leave it in the ground and take pictures of it?
Check out what I did in one commit several years ago. Maybe you can get a multi-million dollar idea from it like others have (meteor, app.js, etc)

Somehow people could change the internet to suit this project to fix everything. Single files of jquery on disparate servers that connect to one frontend could transform the web and undo the big problems.

https://github.com/tblobaum/nQuery

Re:Finding North America’s lost medieval city on Friday December 23, 2016 @09:53PM (#13248332)
Geo-Central Patriarchal Parochialism of the Nibiru Sky.
Re:Mistakes Node.js Developers Make on Saturday January 03, 2015 @08:04AM (#8830656)
rconsole provides syslog bindings as a drop-in replacement for node's built in console module along with other useful output (revised console)

If you want to forward your logs somewhere remote you can set that up in your syslog config

https://github.com/tblobaum/rconsole

Re:Germany Fights Population Drop on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @08:55PM (#8300251)
I am generalizing for the people who don't have families because they see Germany being handed over to foreigners in the future. You do not agree with my opinion? That is fine.

But it is not xenophobic to say that people want to keep German families German. Did you know that China has less than a million immigrants in the entire country? Maybe it is time you respect your people, too. Your group of 4 sounds like some xenophile party.

With this article we have the sexual relations of Germans strewn about and we are expected to just sit back and let the whole world morph the demographics of a nation they aren't a part of. I don't agree with it.

Re:Germany Fights Population Drop on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @01:07PM (#8297592)
We downvote the continuation of the German family.
Re:Germany Fights Population Drop on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @01:05PM (#8297583)
Generalizing is what demographers do. Generalizing based on nationality is not wrong. You are an outlier.
Re:Germany Fights Population Drop on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:59PM (#8297542)
Giving up never makes sense. I still speak the truth.
Re:Germany Fights Population Drop on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @12:39PM (#8297424)
Lets be honest.. the multi-cultural society brought on by leftists and feminists and foreigners leads people to give up on the future of their culture. These people don't want families with non-Germans and they don't want Germany to be non-German, but they are occupied by foreign cultures and they can't do anything to change it.

edit: Every German will upvote this comment

Re:Female Founders on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:16PM (#7040952)
Good job.
Re:Female Founders on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:06PM (#7040902)
After reading this from pg today and your comment here, I'll again suggest considering a change to your logo to a young female hacker or a male/female hacker pair and changing your name to NY Hacker Apprenticeship. Role model, balance, etc, etc. Possibly we can then have many Apprenticeship programs across the US, a useful but long gone part of our economy as people. The needs of role models are fulfilled, and the equality debate can be put in its place by making the political stance clear at the front door.
Re:Words are Hard on Friday January 10, 2014 @05:12AM (#7035946)
It's kind of like a matter of forcing acquiescence versus offering traditional dignification to the eventual employer. I cant really say I take a side.
Re:Words are Hard on Friday January 10, 2014 @01:43AM (#7035430)
To whoever downvoted this, their name right now is Hacker School (commonly politically correct, male "Apprenticeship" terminology avoidance) and the symbol is of a computer (commonly politically correct, neutral/male symbolism).

"NY Hacker Apprenticeship w/ a young female hacker as the mascot" would essentially flip it around, where the Apprenticeship term is used (its an old world male symbol, lets get over the passive aggressiveness) and a modern symbol of equality is used (a female hacker, yes there is political tension over this as we all know, lets get over the passive-aggressiveness)

Yes it was light-hearted because that is essentially two politically provoking things from the wrong vantage point; but sometimes two things which are politically diverging can cancel each other out with the right dose of comedy, fun, and respect.

One could take it plenty of other directions, but I thought it would be cool. Maybe "Hacker School" wants to avoid the political scene altogether out of self preservation, maybe they'll downvote me and take my ideas anyways, or maybe they'll just downvote me and dislike me, who knows?

I have nothing against any person or group, and I respect everyone equally. Cheers.

Re:Words are Hard on Friday January 10, 2014 @01:32AM (#7035405)
I didn't imply that it would be easy to understand the political atmosphere of the group, or that finding the words would be easy. From a different perspective it is essentially the same thing as asking everyone with a formal/informal survey, or observing the common phrases used. It could be done many different ways.
Re:Words are Hard on Thursday January 09, 2014 @10:15PM (#7034888)
So after being reminded of this, they should just call it the NY Hacker Apprenticeship and have their logo be a young female hacker. Too good?

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